Books Quote by Tristan Tzara

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for…

— Tristan Tzara

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

— Lionel Trilling

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

— George Henry Lewes

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing…

— Gustave Flaubert

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human.…

— Nicole Krauss

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

— Isabel Allende

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford